Dissatisfied with the continuing sharp upward trend in health-insurance premiums paid by businesses and their workers, an employer alliance has formed here to pursue a multipronged, locally focused strategy aimed at stabilizing health-care costs on

Work is scheduled to start this week on two office-and-warehouse buildings, worth a combined about $5.3 million, in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, in the Spokane Valley.Crown West Realty LLC, the 600-acre parks Spokane-based owner and

Sundance Plaza LLC, of Spokane, has inked Albertsons Inc. as the supermarket anchor for the planned Sundance Plaza Shopping Center on Spokanes North Side, and after a years delay, is moving forward with the projects $5.2 million first site

Spokane this spring will become the first market nationally in which a new, defined-contribution health-insurance plan called USelect is to be offered.The insurance product was developed and is to be launched here by a Minneapolis company, Inc.,

I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful; because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed or impressed by power . Bud Frasca, of Coeur dAlene, says those

City of Spokane officials say they arent going to let an adverse Washington state Supreme Court ruling stop the citys aggressive new annexation strategy.Late last year, Mayor John Powers proposed a city strategy to pursue the annexation of a

Earlier this year, WestCoast Hospitality Corp. CEO Donald Barbieri described the conditions facing the travel business as perhaps the most difficult economic environment in the recent history of the hospitality industry.Following the attacks

For motorists zooming along U.S. 2 past Northpointe Plaza on Spokanes North Side, its difficult to see beyond the big retail centers acres of parking lots and sprawling conglomeration of interconnected stores.Hidden behind that sprawling

The owners of the Coeur dAlene Brewing Co. have bought the former T.W. Fishers restaurant business next door to their Coeur dAlene operation and plan to open a brewpub there later this spring.The owners, Spokane developers Ron and Julie a

The parent company of two heating-and-ventilation businesses here is merging its Spokane unit, Service Experts of Washington, with its Coeur dAlene operation, TML LLC, and will close the Spokane companys office.The parent, Service Experts, a